Sweetie Belle: I'm sorry, sis! I just thought that if I could help, I might find my special gift and finally earn my cutie mark.

Rarity: I understand. It's just that... I need this time to fill this order without any... complications. Okay, all done. Now, back to work. I've lost a lot of time, and I cannot have any more interruptions.

[doorbell rings]

Rarity: Oh, what now?!

Fluttershy: Oh, sorry. I thought the "open" sign meant you were open, but I must have been mistaken.

Rarity: [gasps] Fluttershy! Forgive me! I was so wrapped up in my work that I forgot you were bringing Opalescence back from her grooming!

Fluttershy: No worries, Rarity. I've left her there in the basket.

Opalescence: [purrs]

Rarity: Oh, she looks great! I just don't understand how you're able to do it! I can't get near her without getting a swipe from her claws.

Opalescence: [hiss!]

Rarity: Ahh! Did you use... the Stare on her?

Fluttershy: Oh, no! I wouldn't! I couldn't! I-I don't really have any control over when that happens. I-It just happens. No, I'm just good with animals. It's my special gift, you know?

Rarity: Well, you should have a picture of Opal as a cutie mark instead of those butterflies.

Sweetie Belle: Ooh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Maybe I can be good with animals, too!

[shing!]

Sweetie Belle: Or not.

Fluttershy and Rarity: [laughs]

Rarity: I'm sorry I can't invite you to stay and chat, Fluttershy. I've bitten off a bit more than I can chew with this order.

Sweetie Belle: But you're not eating anything.

Rarity: No, Sweetie, it's an expression. It means that I've taken on more work than I can handle. I've got twenty of these special robes to make tonight! They're due in Trottingham tomorrow morning.

[twinkling]

Fluttershy: [gasp]

Rarity: See? I've lined them in a special gold silk. It took so long to make, but I think it adds just the right touch, don't you?

Fluttershy: These are lovely, but twenty by tonight? How will you get it all done?

Sweetie Belle: Yup. And look. I lined them with this special gold silk. It took sooo long to make, but I think it adds just the right touch, don't you?

Apple Bloom and Scootaloo: Oooooh!

Rarity: Sweetie Belle! What have you done? That was the last of the gold silk! Oh, now I'll have to make more! Oh, I hope I can make more. I'm gonna have to work all night! Which means... Sorry, girls, I'm afraid the Crusaders sleepover is cancelled.

Sweetie Belle: What?!

Rarity: I just won't have any time to watch you if I want to get these robes delivered on time.

Sweetie Belle: But—

Rarity: No buts this time. I'm sorry, Sweetie Belle. It's just the way it has to be.

Cutie Mark Crusaders: Awwww...

Fluttershy: I, uh, I suppose I could take them for the night.

Rarity: I couldn't ask you to do that.

Fluttershy: Oh, it's no problem at all.

Rarity: Have you met my sister and her friends? A problem is all it would be.

Fluttershy: Did I have a problem with Opal? You've seen how well I handle small creatures!

Fluttershy: Oh, no! If you've been turned to stone, it must mean— oh! Oh no, the girls! Don't move. I'll be back for you. Girls!

Scootaloo: Is not!

Apple Bloom: Is too!

Scootaloo: Is not!

Apple Bloom: Is too!

Sweetie Belle: Girls! Our special talent is not arguing. Besides, what would the cutie mark of somepony whose talent is arguing even look like?

Fluttershy: Girls? Girls?

Sweetie Belle: Fluttershy?

Fluttershy: Girls! Thank goodness I found you!

Apple Bloom: Fluttershy, what—

Fluttershy: Girls, we have to leave the forest at once!

Sweetie Belle: But... we haven't found the chicken yet!

Fluttershy: There's no time for that. There's a cockatrice on the loose!

Apple Bloom: A cocka-what now?

Fluttershy: A cockatrice! It's a frightening creature with the head of a chicken and the body of a snake. Now, come on!

Scootaloo: The head of a chicken and the body of a snake? That doesn't sound scary, that sounds silly!

Apple Bloom: Why, if I ever saw one of them cockathingies face-to-face, I'd laugh at how silly it was.

Fluttershy: No! Never look one in the eye!

[brush rustling, a chicken cluck]

Fluttershy: If you look a cockatrice in the eye—

Apple Bloom: The chicken!

Fluttershy: Girls! Wait!

Cutie Mark Crusaders: Here, chick-chick-chick-chick-chick!

[chicken clucking]

[growling]

Sweetie Belle: There he is!

Scootaloo: Two chickens?

Apple Bloom: I thought only one escaped!

Sweetie Belle: Grab them both!

[chicken clucking]

[brush rustling]

[roar]

[squawk]

[chicken clucking]

[thud]

Cutie Mark Crusaders: [scream]

[thump]

Cutie Mark Crusaders: [gasp]

Fluttershy: See? Now we have to—

Cutie Mark Crusaders: [screaming]

Fluttershy: Girls, please. Girls— now listen to me, girls, I— please!

[screaming]

[cockatrice squawking]

Fluttershy: Girls! Behind me, now!

[cockatrice squawking and roaring]

Fluttershy: You! Just who do you think you are, going around turning others into stone?

Cockatrice: [dismayed squawk]

Fluttershy: You should be ashamed of yourself. I have a mind to find your mother and tell her what you've been up to, young man. Now you go over there, and turn Elizabeak and my friend Twilight back to normal, and don't ever let me catch you doing this again. Do you understand me?

Cockatrice: [dismayed squawking]

Fluttershy: Are you girls all right? I was so worried!

Scootaloo: Yeah, fine!

Sweetie Belle: Thanks to that stare of yours.

Scootaloo: You're like the queen of stares. You're the—

Cutie Mark Crusaders: Stare Master!

Sweetie Belle: We're sorry we snuck out of the house and into the forest.

Apple Bloom: Yeah. We'll listen to you from now on.

Scootaloo: We promise.

Fluttershy: Oh, you do, do you? Well, you better, or I'll give you... the Stare!

[giggling]

Twilight Sparkle: What... what happened?

[chicken squawking]

Cutie Mark Crusaders: [giggling]

Fluttershy: And that's when it brought you back from stone.

Twilight Sparkle: This is gonna make quite a letter to the princess. I was wrong about you. You certainly do know how to handle those girls.

Fluttershy: Oh, I wouldn't go that far.

Twilight Sparkle: Hmm? How so?

Fluttershy: I assumed that I'd be just as good with kids as I am with animals. Boy, was I wrong. I really learned the hard way not to bite off more than I could chew.

Twilight Sparkle: You and Rarity both. Good morning, Rarity.

Fluttershy: Did you finish all those capes?

Rarity: [sigh] Just delivered them. I have to admit, if you hadn't come along, I might not have. Thanks again.

Fluttershy: Won't you stay for some tea?

Rarity: I really must get back to the shop and clean up. Girls! Get your things. Time to go. Girls!